Friday, October 12, 2018

October 12


I finished off the lecture on the French Revolution today. We also started watching a video from the History Channel called "The French Revolution". This is your last weekend with the U.S. Constitution graphic novels. You should also keep working on reading for your IA.


I showed you a couple of videos from 60 Minutes, one was called "Dutch Treat" which covered the Netherlands, and "Welfare a la carte" which focused on Norway. I gave you some time to work on your Chapter 6 Key Terms and Questions, which are due on Monday. You have a test on Tuesday, please see the study guide below.


This test is multiple choice format. This test is on Tuesday, October 16th

1. Please review material from these PowerPoint presentations: 
  • "The Development of Classical Liberalism"
  • "Responding to Classical Liberalism"

2. Be familiar with key concepts introduced in Chapters 3 and 4.
3. The Industrial Revolution:
  • understand fundamental economic, social and political changes that were caused by the Industrial Revolution
  • understand the connection between the Agricultural Revolution and the Enclosure Acts and the Industrial Revolution
  • understand the differences, advantages and disadvantages of the cottage system and the factory system
4. Key beliefs of the various ideologies (review the spectrums briefly); also review this material from the "Responding to Classical Liberalism" PowerPoint presentation:
  • Adam Smith
  • laissez faire economics/capitalism (key ideas)
  • John Stuart Mill
  • Karl Marx (key ideas and beliefs associated with Marx, Das KapitalThe Communist Manifesto, withering away of the state, dictatorship of the proletariat, view of history, etc. ) and Friedrich Engels 
  • Edmund Burke and classical conservatism
5. Some questions may require you to make connections between this year's material and what you learned in 10-1 and 20-1 as well 





You started writing your Unit 1 WRA II Essay today. You'll finish it off on Monday. I'll try to give each essay some feedback this weekend.

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